10 miles from where I grew up, and a good 100 years earlier, at the place in Bedford where the Midland Leicester-Hitchin line crossed the LNWR Oxford-Cambridge line on the level, an MR train and an LNWR train collided. Both engines were wrecked and both drivers were killed. What is totally random and unbelievable is that both engines had the same number and both drivers exactly the same name.